This festival is a Laotian holiday that celebrates the Pha That Luang (Symbol of Laos) and its historical and cultural significance.

The festival marks Buddha's preaching of Abhidhamma to the gods in Trayastrimsa and the end of the Buddhist lent.

Celebration and remembrance of the dead.

The festival that feeds the spirits. This is when the spirits are released and are free to roam at will. Offerings of food are prepared and left for the spirits.

Also known as the Buddhist lent festival, Boun Khao Phansa marks the beginning of a three-month-long period of monastic retreat by the monks.

This cerebration commemorates the birth, enlightenment and parinibbana (death) of Buddha